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Wagner the gardener: Media as nature and the building of a cult

Journal of Fandom Studies, The, 2021
This article explores why composer Richard Wagner has such a passionate cult following, by employing the ‘family resemblances’ of cult texts identified by Matt Hills and, in the process, uncovers the elemental threads embedded into his work. Taking up John Durham Peters’s call for an elemental approach to media, I argue that Wagner’s treatment of art ...
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Building Communities in Ancient Samnium: Cult, Ethnicity and Nested Identities

Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 2014
SummaryThis article addresses the meaning of community in an area of the ancient world that is normally seen to diverge from the paradigm of theClassical city‐state, by examining the role of sanctuaries in the articulation of identity and belonging. The focus is onSamnium (centralItaly) in the last four centuriesBC, where archaeological and historical ...
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A tale of two presidents: personality cult and symbolic nation-building in Turkmenistan

Nationalities Papers, 2015
This article proposes a comparison of the attitudes of the first and second presidents of Turkmenistan to discuss possible overlap between personality cult, as it has been initiated and developed by the two presidents after independence, and nation-building narratives in the country.
Abel Polese, Slavomir Horák
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Notes on the Cult Buildings of Northern Mesopotamia in the Aceramic Neolithic Period

Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 2009
B efore the series of discoveries of monumental Upper Mesopotamian communal ritual structures, the question of the construction of cult buildings during the Aceramic Neolithic period remained unresolved. The research conducted at the existing Aceramic Neolithic sites in Northern Syria, Iraq, and especially Southeastern Turkey dating to the tenth ...
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The cool girl cult : Glossier and building brand identity on Instagram

2021
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Urban and Extra-Urban Cult Buildings in the Aegean World

2013
Analisi archeologica di due santuari minoici e ricostruzioni ...
JASINK, ANNA MARGHERITA, P. Kruklidis
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Building a Pan-Soviet Past: The Soviet War Cult and the Turn Away from Ethnic Particularism

The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, 2011
AbstractThis article examines the evolution of official Soviet remembrance of the Second World War in the decades that followed 1945. Focusing on elite discourse and Komsomol military-patriotic curricula associated with the state cult of the war, the article argues that Soviet remembrance promoted the war as a fundamentally supranational experience and
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Methods of cult-building and cult-dismantling in communist Hungary : the case of Mátyás Rákosi, 1945-1956

2006
Defence date: 29 September 2006 Examining board: Prof. Arfon Rees (Supervisor) ; Prof. László Bruszt ; Prof. Robert Service ; Prof. Árpád von Klimo PDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digitised archive of EUI PhD theses completed between 2013 and 2017 The thesis seeks to explore the phenomenon of the communist leader cult in Hungary in the era of ...
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Time to Build: The Cult Building at Dura, the Church of Tyre, and the Christians’ Right to the City

2022
Around 240-241 CE a house located on a peripheral street of the border garrison town of Dura-Europos (Eastern Syria) is remodeled to better function as a Christian cult building. This labor-intensive renovation and “beautification” project reflects a clear sense of confidence on the part of the houseowner/s and the users of the structure.
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Highly transparent silanized cellulose aerogels for boosting energy efficiency of glazing in buildings

Nature Energy, 2023
Ivan I Smalyukh
exaly